Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:07:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:07:20 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:34568 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:07:19 -0500 Message-ID: <3E687238.8030504@aitel.hist.no> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:19:36 +0100 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 19 Ingo Molnar wrote: > I believe we should still enable > application programmers to give certain apps _some_ minor priority boost, > so that other CPU hogs cannot starve xine. But we don't really need further kernel support for that, do we? I know a user currently cannot raise priority, but the user can run all his normal apps at slightly lower priority, except for xine. And the admin/distrubutor can set everything up for using the slightly lower priority by default. Well, perhaps all this involves so much use of "nice" that kernel support is a good idea anyway... Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/